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I definitely sympathize with this. I used to be (and to some extent still am) the sort of person who would get in a lot of social trouble for being too blunt about things, or for focusing on results rather than social niceties. But I’ve come to realize that in order to really value merit and honesty, good communication skills are a prerequisite. I’m going to focus on the second issue, since I think the merit issue is clearer. (There’s a reason we value languages other than assembly, and people like Bill Nye.)

If you want to be honest, you must first learn communication skills. It is impossible to communicate honestly if you can’t communicate.

Languages do not inherently contain meaning. The only reason we are able to speak and understand each other in English is because there is a social consensus that certain words and phrases mean certain things. If you try to speak to someone who isn’t part of that social consensus (because they speak only a different language, say), your words are meaningless.

Therefore, if you say some words to people, and every time they invariably interpret your words as meaning, “This person is socially aggressive and is disagreeing with me as a power play”, then that is what those words mean. It is almost entirely irrelevant that you intended them to mean, “It is my objective analysis that your plan is bad.”

Since you probably don’t believe, “I want to make a power play on this person”, you are accidentally being dishonest by stating your opinion the way you did. If you want to communicate, “I think your plan is a bad one, and that we ought to try something different”, then you must put in the effort to actually learn how to communicate that.

To take a concrete example, say a friend were to invite you to a movie. The movie is quite bad, and you have a variety of criticisms of it. At the end of the night, your friend asks, “So what did you think?” If you wish to communicate, “I thought it was a bad movie”, you cannot scowl and say, “Typical hollywood tripe.” That would accidentally be dishonest, because you would be communicating, “I’m in a bad mood, and quite possibly angry at you. Also, I’m completely uninterested in your opinion.” Instead, you might try something like smiling and saying, “Oh, it was exactly as terrible as I was expecting. I’m already composing my facebook take-down in my head. What did you think?” This more honestly communicates, “I found the movie lacking, but I’m in a good mood and glad we spent time together.” (Alternatively, if you do happen to be in a bad mood, it’s probably not because of the movie. So you might look thoughtful and say, “Well, I thought it was pretty mediocre, but I’ve been in a bad mood recently anyway, because of X, so I might just be being unfair.”)
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I kind of enjoyed buying my last vehicle. For some reason, the salesman had it in his mind that I could not afford the one I was looking at. I was the one trying to talk him into adding options, while he was trying to take them away to keep the costs lower. Once I finally talked him into the one I wanted, he, without asking, starts filling out the loan application. I'm like "umm, I'm going to be paying for it in cash."

Before I even left home I had already determined what I considered a fair market exchange for the trade with my existing vehicle. I think in the end, they actually ended up doing a little bit better than I had expected.
What would you have them do, just sit there and eventually be unable to provide their service to their customers?
This sounds a lot like the last level of capture the flag 2.
Because I get that and personally don't care.

But you donate less money to political candidates than the auto dealers do, and so here we are.
Asked to quote to make a system like [1] for a fleet of 1000 vans. Buying in USB cameras would reduce engineering costs compared to making our own. Eventually went for a brand that cost less and could accept wide angle lenses.

[1] http://www.smartdrive.net
Then shouldn't the law simply ban such pricing practices? That seems like a less oppressive solution. Banning an important industry from selling its own products just sounds wrong.
It does seem a little odd, but as a resident of one of those states I think it's awesome. I can peruse the lot with zero chance of being approached by a salesperson. IMHO it actually facilitates car sales, because one day a week people can look at new cars without immediately feeling like prey.
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In Québec auto dealers are only allowed to be open on weekdays. I can't see why our province (or maybe it's a Canadian law I'm not sure) needs to pass a law to prohibit car sales on the week-end.
I am a Backblaze customer and this post made me admire their commitment to provide their service even in times of crisis. I won't be switching away, and I don't see why I would.
People already use it as though it had classes, so it makes sense to add the sugar. It will prevent errors such as SomeObject.prototype.foo = {} by not allowing data on the class body.
My point exactly. Both of those languages are synchronous by default, async is an option. JS is async only pretty much*

* while there are blocking calls in node, they are by far the exception. It is not multi-paradigm like Java
Meme: An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.

Seems pretty appropriate in this case.

It looks like a fun idea. How do the postcards look in printed form? I imagine quality is not great?
It's increasingly difficult to browse websites with NoScript and Request Policy add-ons. There are websites that download JS from more than a dozen different domains. Moreover, it seems that a lot of web developers (including some here) simply dismiss NoScript users "not our target audience". Emerging "HTML" standards don't make this situation any better, since they are pretty much aimed at developing websites in JavaScript, not HTML.
I am very worried about corporations that are "key to our survival" and incentivized to break the cycle of life by producing species that don't breed true. Aren't you? If not, why not?
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We're considering PayPal (but have heard the horror stories about holds on larger amounts) or a wire transfer (but would prefer not to provide our routing and account number). 10K+. Would love to hear the community's suggestions.
I've never seen a bytecode that wasn't just a straightforward source-to-source translation of some language. JVM bytecode is pretty much just another way to encode Java (invokedynamic notwithstanding). .NET bytecode is pretty much just another way to write C#.

Bytecode really is nothing more than just a compressed source encoding of some language. It doesn't magically result in a VM that can efficiently encode all semantics of all programming languages, and I don't believe such a VM can exist anyway.
H1B is a dual content visa. So, no it will not affect your prospect.
I have liked these questions, even if I think a few of them are a little narrow. It's certainly sparked a bit of motivation for me. However, the intro blog post is worded very poorly, which is what I'm assuming is causing a lot of the problems. It reads less as a call to personal improvement and more as a shaming/institutional snobbery - whether that was intended or not.
Too bad he wasn't in the loop though, MS could have gained some additional momentum involving him: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/255649668548136960
I think the author was getting at actually focusing on having empathy for others when speaking to them to help understand their emotional state. Having empathy for others is not an attempt to manipulate them.
True, and Tesla has been the biggest disruptor. But barriers to entry are huge, and regulation really clamps down on "disruption".

You know all those awesome concept cars you see at car shows that never get built? One reason nothing revolutionary comes out is that the industry is regulated to the max. Much of it is "safety" features, which may be well and good, but much of those "safety" constraints are arbitrary. But there are laws about everything from the shape of the steering wheel, to how far apart headlights need to be, and the CAFE standards pushing for fuel economy limits how cars have to be designed and built, as the companies need to squeak out every last mpg on the car.
>If all stores were owned by car manufacturers, that would be a significant barrier to entry of new automakers.

Is that a barrier to Tesla? It appears a big potential barrier to Tesla (a new automaker) is in fact the dealerships and the law preventing manufacturers from selling directly. In this case it's helping to prevent new entrants into the industry.
And some manufactures have "holdback" which means the dealer can get a percentage back if the car sells within 90 days. For VW it is 2% off MSRP.

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/dealer-holdback/
Timing is ripe for Tesla to join up with other auto manufacturers to start a PR campaign to get these laws overturned. Normally special interests are the only ones who care enough to lobby about niche issues which is how we end up with so much bass-ackwards legislation. But in this case it's manufacturers vs dealers, and the public by and large hates dealers, so this could quickly be turned against them and I bet they'd shut up pretty fast.
Thank you for your feedback. I guess I see the key being ad-hoc tasks with someone you're loosely in a team with. Maybe a school project where the team is only very temporary. Or a shopping list, etc.

I initially created this to replace email task management which we ended up using for a project at work. What's what started this.

Do you think it's worth going the route of making myself more like Asana by adding features, etc?

Would you value being able to make a list on TeamDoList.com private?
There's an excellent video from Google I/O at https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/gooio2012/2... part of which discusses Shadow DOM.
You can do that online any time. What you see in the lot on Sunday is the same as what you would see online.

But as a resident of one of those states as well, I hate it. Not because I want to buy a car on Sunday but because if the dealership is open the service section of the dealership would also be open.
Always apply directly. Agency does nothing for you. Especially now it's online.
Coursera will ultimately try and leverage their courses as a hiring mechanism. I'm participating in the course, and have taken a prior course as well. After sigining up you will receive an email from coursera asking your permission to share course results with employers.

If they can't use the course certificate as a signal mechanism then there will be no incentive for employers to partner with them
I read it, I also parsed the title better than you did
Doesn't Australia have hideously terrible internet regulations? I guess that wouldn't fall under economic freedom...
I'm not against corporations existing, just the fact that they are able to "buy" influence and special favours in government.
Really nice execution. I think that the core feature that is apparent when using the app (simplicity) is going to be one of the downsides of using it in a team based environment:

1)How do I know if someone on my team has completed a task, if you send out email notifications,I might as well use email.

2)How do I make the lists private to just my team?

3)How do I assign a todo or know who ticked that a todo has been done?

Its these sort of things i'd be looking for, but then you're left with another generic (if nice looking) team based todo list.
Instead of storing half of the bits on a server, why not store them on a smartcard, usb drive, or other physical device, to introduce 2-factor to this system?
i don't know. surprisingly enough, when it comes to difficult moral questions, i don't have all the answers.
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Hedges hit you both ways, though. They save you if prices spike, but also cost you if prices drop.

Given that hard drive prices almost always drop constantly, is that tactic really a good idea? Is it possible to reasonably hedge against price spikes in a commodity whose price you expect to consistently and rapidly drop? (Serious questions, really.)
>The first post rightly points out that Flash had the feature implemented in a non-secure manner for a long time.

Flash disabled all "printing" keys in full-screen mode, and disabled a warning label when entered into the mode. FS could only be entered from user action. So Flash's full-screen mode was limited but fairly secure.
It seems like this relies on an attacker being able to compromise one machine, but not another. Given that these machines are supposed to be quite similar (they're both password databases running the same software), what makes that a reasonable assumption?
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Every one of these sales takes place over the internet, and across state lines. This is interstate commerce. How then are states able to regulate it?
A lot of nations have hideously terrible regulations in some area, and comparing such regulations in an index like this is of course subjective to some extent. It's also not a measure of all freedoms (otherwise, Singapore wouldn't be so high). It's intentionally only looking at economic freedom, which is relevant to the comment I was replying to (and as far as I can tell, the index is not trying to imply that these are the only freedoms that matter).
Well, Samsung's products aren't even close to identical to Apple's, so there you have it.
>What they are scared of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to follow suit which would then put a lot of people out of work.

No. What they're afraid of is that Tesla sets a precedence for other manufacturers to follow suit which would then move revenue out of the dealer's reach. Or: It's not about jobs, it's about money.
I don't think there is any brand confusion, it is clear the differences and even this post shows the difference

https://www.popsurvey.com/blog/popsurvey-is-40-faster-than-s...
Oh, funny. I just noticed your name and realized you're the author. Sorry about that.

Your explanation is linked in the top of the test, but based on many of the comments here I don't think many people read it. It helped me put the test into perspective.
Yes, but aren't other countries even less libertarian?
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I agree.

The reason I started this was because given all those tools out there, I had a team member send out an email with tasks for a project and the thread quickly exploded. This is how we were managing out tasks for that project. I'd be replying to the email with my updated tasks, and boom, I get another one that's already more up-to-date than the one I'm replying to. That's the itch I needed scratched.

I was going to propose Basecamp, etc. but I didn't think management would buy in because of the perceived complexity of signing up everyone, etc.
The article suggests that the two machines could be running different operating systems and be placed on different networks/locations to reduce the chances of a single attack compromising both systems.
That's one of my favorite books. I know it isn't, but I've often imagined that the tool on the front is a hole hawg ;)
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Well, I'd suggest that the fact that they were financially able to carry out this operation suggests that they provide enough value to others for it to be a net gain. Money doesn't necessarily indicate value, of course, but it's a decent first approximation, especially for a business like theirs.
I've always heard that you get a better price if you tell them you're paying in cash...is this just bad info?
The legal protection afforded to cartels is just astounding. I think just yesterday the front page of HN was talking about the taxi cartels, and their efforts to use the law to prevent competition. And now this? As others here have already pointed out, this doesn't really resemble the free market that the US is alleged to have.
Why can't cars be sold just like any other product?

If you want to walk in, look at a sticker, and walk out with your new car, you should visit a Saturn dealership.

Unless they changed it recently, they never haggle.
BitBucket offers free private repos.

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Edit- Apparently BitBucket launched a new version of their site only moments after sharing this link. Looks great!
The IETF is forming a new working group for an open video codec[1]. It is still a BoF and will be chartered in 3-6 months, which is when the real work will begin. More details on the charter can be found in this email [2].

As for the audio, WebRTC chose G.711 and Opus as mandatory to implement (MTI)[3]. The reason for G.711 is so that WebRTC can interoperate with legacy devices.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/mai...

[2] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg...

[3] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg05267...
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> Best Buy is great for researching your purchases. I can read reviews of a laptop online, but I can't feel it, feel the build quality or the keyboard, I can't test the viewing angle. I can read reviews of TVs, but I can't see the picture quality, I can't hear the speakers. I can't ask questions and get answer immediately. Best Buy is great for this.

Sounds like you just need an Amazon showroom. A hell of a lot cheaper to run, and a hell of a lot less annoying pimply teenage employees trying to sell you accessories and extended warranties.
I was talking about this exact quote with my wife yesterday. "...will end [x] as we know it" is the most fatalistic way of wording anything, without actually stating whether it's a good or bad thing.

Monsanto, you already ended farming as we knew it, and that seemed to work out pretty well for you.
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Some people already use it as though it had classes.

I don't like those people.
The IEDR works on a fax based authorisation system for a lot of procedures which is low hanging fruit for an attacker. Any other type of compromise might be more interesting so curious if they'll release how this happened.
I think one of the differences with Methamphetamine is that it can and generally is smoked which gives a much quicker onset and rush which makes it more addictive.
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I'm of the opinion that the value of Coursera's courses comes from the learning opportunity, not the certification. I think they should simply allow cheating and not issue certificates. Alternatively, allow cheating and continue to issue certificates while letting employers decide the true value of the certificates.

The point of Coursera (to me) isn't to pad my resume, it's to learn from courses not always offered at my university.
So, what exactly is the point in cheating on these assignments? IIRC there is no academic credit available and all you receive is a non accredited certificate.

Surely the only point in doing the assignments in the first place is to satisfy yourself that you have understood and can apply the material?
That would not be analogous at all. An analogous example would be if you made an artificial human organ that (supposedly) serves an identical function, but is different enough that it is immune to certain diseases.
The illegal activity you're referring to are the bluffs? I'm under the impression most people have not successfully automated bluffs although I have heard of people manually doing it and using algorithms to exit or hedge. In my experience, most HFT does not intend to manipulate markets, maybe solely because this is difficult to automate and there's a lot of lower hanging fruit (not because they are altruistically abstaining from such behavior). It's difficult to automate bluffs because most HFT relies on backtesting and it's very hard to backtest high market impact strategies. In contrast, it is my impression manual traders can get very good at market manipulation.

There is a lot of shady stuff that goes on in trading due to conflicts of interest. Anyone intelligent or informed enough to know what's going on is financially incentivized to be secretive about it. I haven't gotten the impression the SEC is intentionally being incompetent- they really ARE just incompetent because anyone smart enough to realize what's happening does not join or remain in the SEC. Incompetence is the simplest explanation for the crazy rules and fines they have enforced, and the rules obvious to actual traders that they have ignored.
According to two major economic freedom indices[0][1], the US is ranked 18th and 10th, respectively, worldwide. So no, I wouldn't say that the US is the "most libertarian country in the world".

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
Free private repositories at bitbucket? Or assembla, or projectlocker, or ...
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Why does the New York Times pay me to receive the Sunday paper?
Depends on where in the flight the engine stopped providing thrust too.
"If Apple were allowed to sell its own products itself, it could undersell other dealers and put them out of business...

Yes I know they are also competing with other brands, but some people are brand loyal enough that they would not switch to Android or Windows Phone."
Let us not forget an important factor here, don't do things like hashing using SHA-1. While this system sounds awesome, researching common best practices for password storage takes about 2 minutes.
Bad info.

They make money on the financing, so are likely to be more willing to negotiate on price if they think they will make it back on the financing.

Doesn't mean you can't can't _pay_ cash, but 95% of dealers you don't want to be too upfront about that.
Uh oh, if you think it's "too good to be true" the price is probably too low! We'll see; if people don't sign up at $0.07, I guess I'll just raise the price :P (marketing is funny). I've been having a blast making the service and seeing people use it, so thank for your interest and support.

haha! great correction! fixed!
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Not sure about the JVM, but .NET compiles to an intermediate language called CIL before creating the bytecode. I agree with you, but to bytecode advocates, this is an emotional issue. They do not want JavaScript to be the first-class language and their pet language to be "held back" by it.
Wow, you raise some really good points. I left out the features like assigning tasks, making list private for sake of keeping it simple with the intention of seeing which way people want this to go. I guess I never thought that adding even just those things would make it just another team based todo list app.

In terms of updates, if or when I create a mobile app, you'd get those updates on the mobile. For now, I could add a notification system so if you leave a tap open, or go back to your list, you'd get all the updates.

Any other ideas to possibly make this viable?

Once again, I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback.
>Unless they changed it recently...

Saturn doesn't exist anymore.

From Wikipedia: "Following the withdrawal of a bid by Penske Automotive to acquire Saturn in September 2009, General Motors discontinued the Saturn brand and ended its outstanding franchises on October 31, 2010. All new production was halted on October 1, 2009."[1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Corporation
So can the orbit be corrected, or is this satellite just lost?
One thing I remember my tutors saying time and again, "It's really hard to think up good questions and assignments.".